The Netherlands, with Robben, Sneijder (both played Champions League final with Internationale and Bayern Munich, respectively), van Persie (best striker in the world) and v/d Vaart (Real Madrid) - probably the best offense in the world - will reach the final for the third time.

probably the most unlucky team in the world, Germany 74 with the "accident" of Cruyff and Argentina 78 "hitting the post with 10 minutes left". The Netherlands are one of the 3 countries to have played in 2 finals and no wins, the others are Hungary, the unbelievable team of 1954 and Czechoslovakia. Both Hungary and Czechoslovakia suffered the pro Mussolini referees.

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In the practise matches of last week, Italy played unlike defending world champions, wow they played crap.

Uruguay will be hot!

Argentina, with the lunatic coke-head coach will win the World Cup, unfortunately.

The Netherlands, with Robben, Sneijder (both played Champions League final with Internationale and Bayern Munich, respectively), van Persie (best striker in the world) and v/d Vaart (Real Madrid) - probably the best offense in the world - will reach the final for the third time.

Portugal isn't a unit at all. All balls on Ronaldo ftw? They won't reach the round of 16.

In the practise matches of last week, Italy played unlike defending world champions, wow they played crap.

Uruguay will be hot!

Argentina, with the lunatic coke-head coach will win the World Cup, unfortunately.

The Netherlands, with Robben, Sneijder (both played Champions League final with Internationale and Bayern Munich, respectively), van Persie (best striker in the world) and v/d Vaart (Real Madrid) - probably the best offense in the world - will reach the final for the third time.

Portugal isn't a unit at all. All balls on Ronaldo ftw? They won't reach the round of 16.

Looking forward to watching Brazil!

Wow, van Brittle is healthy enough to suit up? Lucky you

...said the Arsenal fan

...the World Cup is cursed. No two ways about it. The latest star to (possibly) fall victim to the curse: none other than Mr. Glass Legs himself, Dutch star Arjen Robben. The Netherlands dominated their friendly against Hungary today, sparked by a Robben brace for a 6-1 thrashing of their opponents just hours before they would board the plane for South Africa.

However, in the 86th minute with the victory already well in hand, Robben attacked from the right and attempted to lay off a cheeky backheel pass for the overlapping run, unnaturally planting his vaunted left leg and effectively tripping himself on the way to sustaining a serious hamstring injury. Robben didn't fly out to South Africa after the match with the rest of the squad, as he went straight to the hospital for medical testing.

I'm not huge on the World Cup so I'm finding it in me to go through all the teams and make his picks. Also I'm seeing how many more big players are going to miss the competition or possibly miss the competition.

I'm not huge on the World Cup so I'm finding it in me to go through all the teams and make his picks. Also I'm seeing how many more big players are going to miss the competition or possibly miss the competition.

The hamstring injury of Robben is a very cute cuddely fluffy injury, he will fly to South Africa in about a week as far as I know.

It is a very super ultra tiny crack in some upperleg muscle. It is not sure if he will be able to play the first match on the 14th of June but whatever.I'm sure he will be in superduper form in the round of 16 vs Italy .

The hamstring injury of Robben is a very cute cuddely fluffy injury, he will fly to South Africa in about a week as far as I know.

It is a very super ultra tiny crack in some upperleg muscle. It is not sure if he will be able to play the first match on the 14th of June but whatever.I'm sure he will be in superduper form in the round of 16 vs Italy .

I heard that last night, too.

OK Chris, BGT, others, with all the rain in Europe, plenty of time today to do your picks!

A while back I had a different winner to it but I'm going to pick a different team to everybody else and it was a very tough call anyway from quarters onwards with a lot of very even teams.

Naturally I guess we shouldn't have let you see our picks...

Much more interesting if we all pick differently. Not likely to make any difference at all but I always like to make things that bit more interesting. Every other pick is what a completely believe but my final pick really was 50/50 and since that was the case why not pick a different team.